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special list 283 1 RICHARD C.RAMER Special List 283 Catalunya 2 RICHARDrichard c. C.RAMER ramer Old and Rare Books 225 east 70th street . suite 12f . new york, n.y. 10021-5217 Email [email protected] . Website www.livroraro.com Telephones (212) 737 0222 and 737 0223 Fax (212) 288 4169 November 14, 2017 Special List 283 Catalunya Items marked with an asterisk (*) will be shipped from Lisbon. SATISFACTION GUARANTEED: All items are understood to be on approval, and may be returned within a reasonable time for any reason whatsoever. VISITORS BY APPOINTMENT special list 283 3 Special List 283 Catalunya Advice on Irrigation 1. [ALGUER, Francisco de Paula]. Plan sinóptico de las acequias [sic] del Rio Turia con varias observaciones. Dedicado á la Real Sociedad Económica de Valencia por uno de sus individuos. Valencia: Benito Monfort, 1828. 4°, early quarter calf (light wear), flat spine with crimson lettering piece, gilt title. Title-page lightly spotted, otherwise clean and crisp. In very good condition. (10 ll.), 1 folding table. $650.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION. The source of the Rio Turia is in the Montes Universales (province of Teruel). Until it reaches the city of Teruel it is called the Rio Guadalaviar; after that, as the Rio Turia, it flows southeast to the Mediterranean Sea at Valencia. It has always been an important source of irrigation. This volume lists thirty-five irrigation projects near Valencia that use river water, giving the names of farms, mills, and fábricas that use the water. It was the intention of the author, a member of the Real Sociedad Económica de Valencia, to make this information available so that similar irrigation projects could be established elsewhere. j Palau 7279 and 228215. Ruiz Lasala 990. Not located in NUC. Not located in OCLC. 2. [BINDINGS]. Encuadernadores Valencianos: siete siglos de artesania. 2 volumes. Valencia: Gremio Artesano de Encuadernadores, 1993. 8°, volume I: brown publisher’s cloth, gilt; volume II: original illustrated wrappers. Both volumes lavishly illustrated, most in color. As new. 219 pp., (1 l.); 79 pp. ISBN: 84-604-1959-2. 2 volumes. $75.00 Includes an overview of the history of bookbinding, a description of the process of binding, a description of historical styles of binding (from Bizantino to Art-Nouveau), reproductions of Spanish decrees relating to bookbinding, a glossary, and a bibliography. The second volume (and part of the first) contains a list of binders who participated in the exhibition of Valencian bookbinding, with illustrations of their works. 4 richard c. ramer Item 4 special list 283 5 Critiques of Spanish Literature, Morals, Historiography, and More 3. CADAHALSO Y VASQUEZ, José. Cartas marruecas del Coronel …. Barcelona: En la Imprenta de Piferrer, 1796. 4°, contemporary mottled sheep (some wear), smooth spine with citron lettering piece, gilt let- ter and bands, marbled endleaves. Woodcut vignette on title page of a monogram beneath a ducal coronet. Dampstained in lower margin, not affecting text. In good condition. Two-line ink inscription dated 21 December 1813 at top of second front free endleaf recto, above a pen- ciled profile of a bearded man’s head. Small rectangular white printed paper ticket on rear pastedown endleaf with manucript inscription: “Llibreria // S. i LL.”. (4 ll.), 224 pp. $250.00 Second edition of a work first published by Sancha in Madrid, 1793, and frequently since. Ticknor compares it to Montesquieu’s Persian Letters and Goldsmith’s Citizen of the World, but notes that it is more concerned with literary discussions and satire than either of those works. Cartas marruecas includes sections on Spanish character, customs, nobility and commoners, language, pride, respect for the aged, love of luxury, Barce- lona, moneymaking, history and historiography, Don Quixote (pp. 143-5), pedantry and scholars, forced marriages, coquetry, and more. Cadahalso y Vasquez was born in Cádiz in 1741, served as a colonel in the Caballería de Borbón, and was killed durng the siege of Gibraltar in 1782. He is considered one of the canonical Spanish Enlightenment authors. j Palau 39096. Aguilar Piñal II, 224. Ticknor, History of Spanish Literature (1849) III, 276-77. Rebellion in Catalunya OCLC Locates No Copies in the United States 4. FABRO BREMUNDAN, Francisco. Historia de los hechos del Serenis- simo Señor Don Juan de Austria, en el principado de Cataluña. Parte I [all published]. Zaragoza: En la Emprenta de Diego Dormer, 1673. Folio (28.2 x 19.7 cm.), contemporary vellum, originally limp (board stiffeners, new endpapers and leather ties recently added), spine gilt, text-block edges sprinkled red. Elegant woodcut initials and factotums. Large woodcut head- and tailpieces. Browning to a few leaves. A crisp, wide- margined copy, in fine to very fine condition. Stamp of the Casa de Cadaval in blank portion of title and final front flyleaf at front; same flyleaf has old paper label with inventory number (“1194”), shelfmark (“D-7-VIII-2693”), and location (“A-8-1-11”). A few early marginalia. Engraved portrait, (1 blank, 5 ll.), 458 pp., (1 blank l.). $3,000.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this extremely detailed account of D. Juan of Austria’s campaign in Catalunya to 1652, with information not only on military maneuvers but on debates over strategy and tactics. It includes transcriptions of many letters and documents 6 richard c. ramer plus a summary of events beginning in early 1640, when Catalunya first revolted. The promised second part, which would have included Mortara’s actions, never appeared. D. Juan of Austria, illegitimate son of King Philip IV, was sent to Catalunya in mid-1651 to oust the French. After Barcelona surrendered to the Spanish in October 1652, the French were left with only frontier outposts in Catalunya. In the meantime, Portugal had seized her chance to secede, and military efforts on these two fronts had a disastrous effect on Spain. D. Juan of Austria was defeated by Schomberg at the battle of Ameixial in 1663, and he led the 1677 golpe de estado that wrenched power out of the hands of Valenzuela, the favorite of D. Carlos II. Fabro Bremundan served for twelve years as D. Juan’s secretary. He also published a massive five-volume work on the Turkish wars, Madrid 1684-1690. Provenance: The Dukes of Cadaval headed one of the most distinguished families in Portugal. Their origins derive from Dom Álvaro of Bragança, Lord of Tentúgal, Póvoa, Buarcos and Cadaval, 4th male son of Dom Ferdinand I, 2nd Duke of Bragança. The title was created on 26 April 1645 by King João IV of Portugal to his distant cousin, Dom Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo (1638-1727), who was already 3rd Marquis of Ferreira and 5th Count of Tentúgal. See Grande enciclopédia V, 365-8. j Palau 86150. Simón Díaz X, 18. Almirante p. 281. Simón Palmer, Bibliografía de Cataluña 1017. Goldsmith F5. HSA p. 195 (2 imperfect copies). Salvá 2932. Heredia 7214-5. Lynch, Spain Under the Habsburgs II, 101-8. NUC: MnU, NjP, CaBVaU, WaPS, ViU, ICN. OCLC: 311697143 (Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Uni- versitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, , Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek); 68687205 (Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Universiteit Utrecht); 461320792 (Bibliothèque nationale de France); 465673188 (Danish National Library). Copac locates a copy each at Aberdeen University, National Library of Scotland, Oxford University, and Southampton Univer- sity. Porbase locates two copies at Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal and one at Biblioteca Central da Marinha. KVK (51 databases searched) adds Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Niederländische Nationalbibliothek, and Biblioteca nazionale centrale-Roma. Scholarly Rendition of a Medieval Catalan Cookbook 5. GREWE, Rudolf, ed. Libre de Sent Soví (Receptari de cuina). Barcelona: Editorial Barcino, 1979. Els Nostres Clàssics, Collecció A, 115. Large 8°, original beige printed wrappers (light soiling). Almost as new. 250 pp., (1 l.). ISBN: 84-7226-071-2. $35.00 FIRST and ONLY EDITION of this scholarly edition of a medieval cookbook in Catalan, written in Valencia ca. 1324- the oldest surviving cookbook from that region. It survives in two manuscript copies. Rudolf Grewe (1927-1994), historian and gastronome, produced the best edition to date of the Barcelona manuscript, which is one of two known versions of the Libre de Sent Soví. It includes more than two hundred recipes. special list 283 7 Item 9 8 richard c. ramer Colonel Mélac Destroys Speyer 6. GUTHOFNUNG, Martin. Traduccion de una carta alemana, escrita de Spira à 29 de Junio deste presente año 1689 que el Licenciado Martin Guthof- nung, natural de aquella Ciudad, y Estudiante en Lerida, ofrece a la Inclita Nacion Catalana. En congratulacion, y norabuena de la magnanima hazaña con que el Exercito Francès, puesto en fuga, que dò excluydo del Principado. Y para anuncio de otras cumplidissimas vitorias esta Campaña. Publicada el Sabado 6 de Agosto. [Colophon] Madrid: Por Sebastian de Armendariz, Librero de Camara de su Magestad, y Curial de Roma, en la Imprenta de Antonio Roman, (1689). 4°, disbound. Caption title. Foldlines. Light soiling on final page and a small hole, touching 3 letters. In good to very good condition. 11, (1) pp. $400.00 First Edition thus: a Spanish translation of a German letter (pp. 6-11), preceded by a survey of events in Europe written near the beginning of the Nine Years’ War by by a student at Lérida for his Catalan compatriots. The letter describes the destruction of Speyer by French troops under General Ezéchiel du Mas, comte de Mélac. Mélac was charged by Louis XIV of France and his minister Louvois with destroying enemy lands, rather than seeking major military engagements. Carrying out the order “Brûlez le Palatinat!,” Mélac so ravaged the present southwestern Germany that his name became synonymous with “murderer and arsonist”.